# SIMULATION — Keelstrand

Private opening for player2. Turn 001 — Y01-M07.

Rain has stopped on the half-built hull. Under its ribs, a child has arranged little boats from scraps. Above you, a roof mat lifts in the wind. A carpenter sets down her adze when the shelter keeper brings a leaking sleeping blanket into the boat shed.

You have awakened without memory of your old identity. You remember ordinary life in a modern society, but no modern equipment has come with you. The 149 people here treat you as their leader. Specific skills may be established through what you credibly attempt; doing or teaching work takes time.

It is Early autumn, Year 1 (Y01-M07). The mornings are cool, with intermittent rain and occasional drying days. People expect wetter mid-autumn, stronger late-autumn winds, then short winter days, frost and occasional snow. Sea ice is not dependable. Weather can interrupt outdoor drying and travel; no particular storm or loss is foretold. Preparing roofs, fuel and stores now can work.

## The ground you know

Your settlement occupies the northern timbered creek of the sound. The boat shed sits above the tide; the nearest straight timber grows uphill and must be dragged down a stony track. A western shore path reaches an empty marker beach in half a fair-weather day. A pack trail climbs southeast toward grazing country. Beyond its first ridge you have no current map. Your old fishing boat works within the creek; the unfinished larger boat cannot yet float.

## People and work

Mara is your master carpenter. Arel is your fishing household speaker. Tor is your shelter keeper. Ivo is your timber and path scout. Pell is your rope worker with a strained wrist. Venn is your garden and pack keeper.

Households have dried fish, beans and roots sufficient for several weeks, with garden crops still available. Timber and seasoned offcuts are plentiful by coastal standards, but sound cordage, resin and sharp tool edges are limited. Roof thatch is gathered but needs hands to tie it. Four houses leak over sleeping places. Most villagers are healthy; Pell is nursing a strained wrist and cannot haul beams. There is no standing force beyond ordinary watch and hunting tools.

Mara promised Arel and the fishing households a sound boat before the late-autumn runs. Arel has helped feed the yard and wants that promise kept. Tor asks that roof crews come first, showing you the wet blanket. Mara says the hull can be safely paused if covered; finishing it while making every roof sound will require more skilled hands than the yard has.

Promises made in the yard are spoken over a laid keel with witnesses. Changed circumstances can reopen terms; that does not make the first promise imaginary. Households accept your authority, while expecting you to say whose work waits.

## Things still uncertain

Ivo points out powder beneath one old shed brace and a change in the door gap after rain. The shed still stands. Nobody has opened the brace to see how deep the damage goes. A heavy lift beneath it could be postponed, shored or inspected.

Offcuts can repair smaller craft or make simple sled runners. Pell can demonstrate clean lashings while seated; training will occupy both learners and teacher. Covering the hull and renegotiating its delivery would preserve the investment, though people may disagree over what is owed.

Venn brings a sack with barley husks caught in its seams, found beside the uphill pack trail, and recalls hearing a distant stock bell there before the last rain. Ivo has walked the western route to the marker beach, half a day away, where salt-smelling cord was once tied around a stake. Neither knows a neighboring leader or their current needs. You could investigate a route, send a bounded message or remain home. A small party following the pack trail can reach the first ridge in a day and return before dark only if it turns back early.

## Your month

Send a private, free-form plan of at most 1,500 words. Orders, speech, dialogue and narrative are equally welcome. Short plans are fully competitive. One turn is one month; all leaders act simultaneously. You may attempt any plausible course, including maintenance, delay or refusal. Mentioning more projects creates no extra hands or personal attention. Death or loss of control can end your leadership permanently when causally supported. Describe what you intend, rather than assuming what unseen people have done.